A new study found Coffin Butte Landfill exempted up to 93% of its surface from required methane leak monitoring. The landfill's owner, Republic Services, has not received state permission for these ...

Coffin Butte Landfill's proposed air permit would increase limits for some pollutants while decreasing others. The permit would set the landfill's first-ever cap on greenhouse gas emissions. Public ...

Corrections & clarifications: Republic Services has not previously submitted a quarterly preventative maintenance form for the flare at Coffin Butte Landfill to the Department of Environmental Quality ...

Coffin Butte Landfill will not be allowed to expand, Benton County Commissioners decided March 3. The vote reverses commissioners’ November approval of the controversial expansion and exhausts ...

Coffin Butte Landfill, which is located in Benton County, might expand soon. The site draws waste from nearly two dozen Oregon counties and accepts more than one million tons of garbage annually. But ...

John Wilson is leading in the Democratic Primary for Benton County Commissioner Position 1. He held a 242 vote advantage over ...

The Benton County Board of Commissioners adopted a final decision Nov. 17 allowing Coffin Butte Landfill to expand. With no discussion, the board voted 2-1 to approve a conditional use permit allowing ...

Coffin Butte is taking a number of steps to cut down on the odor of methane gas that has been noticeable some distance from the site, its general manager says. Brian Stone, general manager of Valley ...

Republic Services has filed a conditional use permit application with Benton County to build a landfill on part of a larger 59-acre forested parcel south of Coffin Butte Road. Camille Hall has lived ...